Teachers salaries have been a bone of contention for a long time. With the minimum annual salary sitting around the £22,500 mark, but weekly working hours often as high as 60, it would be fair to say that (in general) teachers are under paid for their work.

The education sector is suffering from a severe skills shortage and with one third of all new teachers leaving the profession within five years of starting, it is apparent that retention is one of the major issues.

With the recent Gallup Survey revealing that a mere 15% of employees are engaged in the workplace and with lack of teacher engagement leading to 2.3 million missed workdays, it is clear that there are issues which must be addressed.

As the UK moves into the next phase of its Brexit negotiations, the estimated 2.38 million people from EU countries who are working in the UK will no doubt be questioning what will happen to their status once we leave the EU.